How to exclude .cshtml views from code coverage in coverlet

[LearCore]

Hi I am having same issue i am not able to exclude Views- .cshtml from coverge
My Folder structure in solution is .Web /Views- .cshtml files
in the coverge result it is showing as AspNetCoreGeneraterDocumnet is 0 % . Please help which command should be used to exclude .cshtml pages.

I tried filter and exclude

[horusceridian]

facing the same issue with autogenerated code.
tried to exclude them using runsettings file but no luck

[Bertk]

Hi,
did you use one of this filters already?

• ExcludeByAttribute
• ExcludeByFile

I use the ExcludeByFile option in MSBuild targets file

dotnet vstest "$(_TestAssembly)" /collect:"XPlat Code Coverage" --ResultsDirectory:"$(_TestResultDirectory)" --logger:"trx;LogFileName=$(_TestResultTrxFileName)" --Diag:"%(TestToRun.ResultDiagLogfilePath);tracelevel=verbose" -- DataCollectionRunSettings.DataCollectors.DataCollector.Configuration.Format=cobertura DataCollectionRunSettings.DataCollectors.DataCollector.Configuration.ExcludeByFile="**/*.Version.cs"

You find also a example for the class filter in coverlet build pipeline : Run tests with coverage

[Bertk]

The coberatura.xml file for a Razor Page project will have sections like:

        <class name="RazorPagesTestSample.Pages.ErrorModel" filename="Pages\Error.cshtml" line-rate="0" branch-rate="0" complexity="6">
          <methods>
...
            </method>
        </class>

This command will remove the *cshtml files from cobertura.xml report:

dotnet test src\RazorPages\RazorPagesTestSample.Tests\RazorPagesTestSample.Tests.csproj --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage" --results-directory="TestResults/" -- DataCollectionRunSettings.DataCollectors.DataCollector.Configuration.ExcludeByFile="**/*.cshtml"

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[BodanGjozinski]

Hey everyone,

Destaleling (should be a word) this one for clarity.
Sorry for the long post, I lost 2 days trying to figure this out 😄.

The filtering expression @Bertk provided works.
Thanks man 😄 .

I also had a problem when excluding the views as well as other folders.

I think there is no Issue with Coverlet here, but i might be wrong.
I am not exactly sure how the filtering expressions are supposed to work.

The situation arises when you try to exclude specific views using folder structure filtering syntax instead of all .cshtml files.

I think that the real issue is the folder structure of the Views folder, i.e. the filtering expressions people try out.

So if you try out his code:
<ExcludeByFile>**/Solution.Web/Views/*.cshtml</ExcludeByFile>
It works but it does not does not exclude all of the .cshtml files from the Views folder.

It excludes only the .cshtml files at the root level of the Views folder like _ViewStart.cshtml.
Which are almost always 2 files and they do not provide a noticeable change in coverage epecially when you think you are removing all .cshtml files.
It is easy to think that the whole exclusion does not work.
It does not exclude the files that he actually wants to exclude like Views/Users/AddOrUpdateUser.cshtml.

This is what works and what it does from what i have found:

Exclude all .cshtml files

<ExcludeByFile>**/*.cshtml</ExcludeByFile>

Exclude all .cshtml files from the MainApp.MVC/Views folder

<ExcludeByFile>**/MainApp.MVC/Views/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Views/**/*.cshtml</ExcludeByFile>

Exclude all .cshtml fles from an Area Views folder

<ExcludeByFile>**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/Common/Views/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Common/Views/**/*.cshtml</ExcludeByFile>

Tested Example:

• Both of these achieve the same result in my project.
• Which is to remove all views, migrations and the Infrastructure folder(its a duplicate in my case).

1. <ExcludeByFile>**/*.cshtml,**/DAL/Migrations/*,**/MainApp.MVC/Infrastructure/**/*.cs</ExcludeByFile>
2. <ExcludeByFile>**/DAL/Migrations/*,**/MainApp.MVC/Infrastructure/**/*.cs,**/MainApp.MVC/Views/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Views/**/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/Common/Views/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/Common/Views/**/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/IntranetPortal/Views/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/IntranetPortal/Views/**/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/PublicPortal/Views/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/PublicPortal/Views/**/*.cshtml</ExcludeByFile>

• the ExcludeCodeCoverage.runsettings.xml file:
  `

<!-- Configuration for data collectors -->
<DataCollectionRunSettings>
	<DataCollectors>
		<DataCollector friendlyName="XPlat code coverage">
			<Configuration>

				<!-- This works -->
				<ExcludeByFile>**/*.cshtml,**/DAL/Migrations/*,**/MainApp.MVC/Infrastructure/**/*.cs</ExcludeByFile>
				
				<!-- Works now, for specific views folders -->
				<!--<ExcludeByFile>**/DAL/Migrations/*,**/MainApp.MVC/Infrastructure/**/*.cs,**/MainApp.MVC/Views/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Views/**/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/Common/Views/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/Common/Views/**/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/IntranetPortal/Views/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/IntranetPortal/Views/**/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/PublicPortal/Views/*.cshtml,**/MainApp.MVC/Areas/PublicPortal/Views/**/*.cshtml</ExcludeByFile>-->
				
			</Configuration>
		</DataCollector>
	</DataCollectors>
</DataCollectionRunSettings>

`

• the command i use:
  dotnet test --settings ExcludeCodeCoverage.runsettings.xml --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage"

Considerations for addition to documentation:

• Add removal of views or all .cshtml files as an example.
• Explicit mention of:
  • Only the first xml element <ExcludeByFile> is applied.
  • You can add more but they are ignored.
  • Instead, you need to concatenate different patterns with a ',' inside a single <ExcludeByFile>.

[Bertk]

Coverlet supports only single XML element for filter parameter which could be a list of multiple values separated by comma.

coverlet/src/coverlet.msbuild.tasks/coverlet.msbuild.targets

Line 44 in 67e37bb

ExcludeByFile="$(ExcludeByFile)"

Coverlet does not support Microsoft coverage syntax Customize code coverage analysis

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[Bertk]

Solution available. See replies of this issue or similar closed issues with "cshtml" files e.g. #1375